Patrick Wu is a Life Science Marketing Consultant based in Alberta. As we prepare to head to the annual BIO Convention, Patrick has prepared a couple of profiles of Alberta companies which will be at BIO in Philadelphia showcasing their products, and meeting with potential partners and investors. If I asked you to think about words you associate with "Alberta," I bet many of you would probably not have picked "virology." But Alberta is home…

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Anita Truong is a Master of Biomedical Technology graduate at the University of Calgary. She is currently an intern with Genome Alberta for the summer and one of her assignments is to profile some of the participants involved in our #TasteTECH event . Aquaponics is the combination of aquaculture, the farming of fish, and hydroponics which is the method of growing plants in water instead of soil. By mixing the two processes, the team at…

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Anita Truong is a Master of Biomedical Technology graduate at the University of Calgary. She is currently an intern with Genome Alberta for the summer and one of her assignments is to profile some of the participants involved in our #TasteTECH event . Cricket powder blueberry muffins, spicy cricket fritters and cricket hummus…yes you read that right!.At Entomo Farms, they revolutionized sustainable foods by producing cricket powder, “the planet’s most sustainable super-food.” Entomo Farms started…

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Anita Truong is a Master of Biomedical Technology graduate at the University of Calgary. She is currently an intern with Genome Alberta for the summer and one of her assignments is to profile some of the participants involved in our #TasteTECH event . When Dustin Hoffman's character Benjamin Braddock in The Academy Award nominated movie The Graduate was searching for a career,  he received some simple advice. "One word:plastics" That was in 1967 and  plastics…

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If you’ve never spent time around dairy cows to see how much they burp, you don’t know what you’re missing. At least, that’s the view of Canadian genome researchers and their counterparts around the globe. As those behind the Efficient Dairy Genome Project (EDGP) continue their quest to boost feed efficiency and reduce methane emissions in dairy cattle through genomics, a key focus is how best to measure the methane, with a little help from…

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Everything in life is a trade off: Marry the woman of your dreams; then brace for the in-laws. Fortunately, genomics has the potential to change the rules when it comes to beef cattle, enabling producers to enjoy the upside of key traits without enduring the downside. Tapping that potential is the focus of the Genome Alberta project targeting traits of interest to the beef industry such as feed efficiency, productivity and methane emissions. “The profitability…

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Computing is essential to DNA sequencing. It is also the cornerstone in genetic-based discoveries ranging from personalized medicine to novel cancer drugs. As impressive as these accomplishments are, they are only a taste of seemingly endless possibilities. A new discipline of specialized computing called bioinformatics has emerged to push human knowledge towards future innovations that were previously beyond the reach of traditional research tools and processes. While the definition of bioinformatics is still evolving, there…

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Anita Truong is a Master of Biomedical Technology graduate at the University of Calgary. She is currently an intern with Genome Alberta for the summer and one of her assignments is to profile some of the participants involved in our #TasteTECH event . Ever since Eve took at bite of the forbidden fruit, apple slices left out for even short period of time, start to turn brown.  Have you ever seen one of those browning…

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Patrick Wu is a Life Science Marketing Consultant based in Alberta. As we prepare to head to the annual BIO Convention, Patrick has prepared a couple of profiles of Alberta companies which will be at BIO in Philadelphia showcasing their products, and meeting with potential partners and investors. Let's not sugarcoat it: cancer sucks. We all know somebody that cancer has affected somehow. Fortunately, another tool might be coming on the market to help with…

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Anita Truong is a Master of Biomedical Technology graduate at the University of Calgary. She is currently an intern with Genome Alberta for the summer and one of her assignments is to profile some of the participants involved in our #TasteTech event . Genome Alberta, Corteva and the ASTECH foundation will be hosting the annual TasteTECH reception as part of the Inventure$ conference on June 5th, 2019. This event showcases biotech inspired foods that are…

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